Brian Eno
Biography
Brian Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
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Movies (47)
Together for Palestine
as Self
2025
an ending
Music (Sound)
2024
Daedalus
as Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2024
DEVO
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Eno
as Self
2024
Brian Eno & Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis, Athens
as Self
2023
CAN and Me
as Self
2022
Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2022
We Are As Gods
as Self
2022
Ithaka
Music (Sound)
2022
Wood and Water
Music (Sound)
2022
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2021
The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2019
2025: The Long Hot Winter
as Radio presenter
2019
Rams
Music (Sound)
2018
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
as Self
2018
By This River
Music (Sound)
2018
492: A Man Called Death
Music (Sound)
2017
Hi Stranger
Music (Sound)
2017
Late Anthropocene
Music (Sound)
2016
Slowdive: Souvlaki
as Himself (Archival Footage)
2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2015
100 Years - Armenian Genocide
Music (Sound)
2015
We Are Many
as Self
2014
What Difference Does It Make?
as Self
2014
The Lost World
Music (Sound)
2013
David Bowie: Five Years
as Self
2013
Laylou
Music (Sound)
2012
The British Guide to Showing Off
2011
U2: From the Sky Down
as Self
2011
Brian Eno 1971–1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth
2011
Ride, Rise, Roar
as Self
2011
U2360° Tour: Squaring The Circle
as Self
2010
Brian Eno: Another Green World
as Self
2010
The Lovely Bones
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2009
Roxy Music: More Than This - The Story of Roxy Music
as Self
2009
Linear
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2009
Roxy Music - The Thrill of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982
as self
2008
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
as Self
2007
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Mein Freund, der Mörder
Music (Sound)
2006
14 Video Paintings
Director (Directing)
2005
The Jacket
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2005
Roxy Music: Inside 1972-1974
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Clean
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2004
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
as Self
2003
Fear X
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2003
